Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mckellen

When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.

Will Poulter

My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'.

Wendy Kopp

Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.

Zubin Mehta

There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.

Yani Tseng

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

Colin Baker

I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.

Chris Carter

I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get' me. So I sent him an email. I said I want to practice law but that I didn't want to stop writing and I asked if there was any way I could practice law for him.

Debasish Sen

The police have been asked to carry out investigations and carry out the required proceedings.

Zach Johnson

I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I've calmed down. Looking back, I was engaged more in dramas than I was in relationships. I've spent a lot of my life being in it for the plot, and I don't do that anymore. I'm satisfied. I'm not competing with myself. I accomplished things I wanted to do, so everything I do now is because I want to, not because I'm trying to prove something.

Jan Brogan

We came out on one and two doubles and didn't play within our game. We calmed down and played within our game in singles. We have pushed Stanford more than any other team and we will just get more confident in the next month and a half.

Alan Barton

We came out in the third and the three kind of got us going. I was calm at halftime and just told the girls that they weren't playing.

Tony Marshburn

Tyler hit a big shot. He was the second option, but that wasn't the shot (designed). I'm just glad it ended up in his hands. He was calm enough to put up a good shot.

S. Hughes

We have a lack of taking care of the basketball. We need to have a guard step up and calm things down. We need to have someone emerge and take the responsibility away from our scorers.

Sue Fox

Wait 24 hours to calm down. Then, read your message over again. If you still feel the same way, send it.

Thomas Fuller

Vows are made in storms and forgotten in calm weather.

Ed Hinkel

We just want to stay calm like he does. We all kind of model after him.

Iyad Allawi

With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country's infrastructure.

George Allen

We're going to hear a lot of spirited discussion about the President's plan in the next few days and weeks and that's fine as long as everyone comes ready to talk and not just snipe, complain and argue.

Yo-Yo Ma

Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.

Billy Graham

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years... Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

Don Rickles

I mean, in my - and I'm not trying to do spilled milk, but in those days it was a little - I think it was much tougher, because you got an image, and you were in a saloon. And it was tough to come out of a saloon and to get in films, and to maintain an image, you know.

Graham Swift

The pen is very quick for getting stuff from your brain to the page. I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.

Ben Elliot

I eat out three times a day most days of the year. This is no big deal to most New Yorkers, and it is not something I am necessarily proud of - it's simply the nature of my itinerant life.

Becky G

There are days I'm feeling lazy, and my mom will remind me, 'Beyonce also only has 24 hours during the day.' That always keeps me going.

David Kay

As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies.

Alan Bennett

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

Jim Waggoner

The percentages say that the day after Christmas, the market goes up. Eighty percent of the time, stocks rise.

Joe Heim

I think that has to do with the intensity issue. The voting was only 21 percent of the eligible voters. The ?yes' side was more invested, so more likely to show up as voters. They wanted to make a statement. The ?no' side was less organized. Eighty percent of the people didn't vote.

Eric Lander

About 99 percent of genes in humans have counterparts in the mouse. Eighty percent have identical, one-to-one counterparts.

John Pickett

I'm not really sure what the market is showing us here, ... Seven hundred and eighty million shares: That's not a lot.

Roy Acuff

Im going to be eighty soon, and I guess the one thing that puzzles me most is how quick it got here.

Pat Peterson

Eighty to 90 percent of spam now have URLs.

Larry Turner

Eighty percent of the time I'm OK. Twenty percent of the time, it's overwhelming.

Tom Hylton

Eighty percent of the street trees in Paris are London plane trees.

Chris Gibson

We have a lot of safety measures in place already, so I feel pretty comfortable with those,

Li Yizhong

We've met unprecedented safety pressures and all in all, all the iron-handed measures should be implemented thoroughly.

Thomas Flynn

It'd be that much more if we didn't have some of the conservation measures we have here,

Sudhir Kumar

We have taken all measures to see that passengers are not affected. Security has also been tightened.

Moshe Sharett

I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us.

Kevin Shelley

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.

Tom McCall

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

John Proctor

There are similar security measures to those of online banking.

Raila Odinga

Kenyans should rise and stop this draconian measures by a dictatorship government.

Anthony Coley

We have to make sure it works. A victory for us is to make sure that savings are passed on to the consumer.

Ken Lewis

I wish we had passed the school bonds.

Craig Patrick

We didn't sense that there was any problems with the shoulder. He passed the physical.

Chris Clarke

I was saying, 'You've got to get up; you've got to get up,' ... He said, 'I'm getting up.' I went to get help, and when I got back, he'd passed away.

Tim Powers

I have more questions than answers. I wonder, could a lot of these teachers have passed this test in the '70s?

Petr Sykora

I don't think we passed any shooting chances. He just made saves. He was the difference.

Sen Brownlee

If it had one more vote it would have passed the Senate.

Jon Banner

We've been wanting to do it for a while, we talked about it more seriously after Peter passed away.

James Buchanan

Greencastle took us out of our game. We passed well vs. Fannett-Metal, but Greencastle played us physical and made their opportunities.

Ashton Kutcher

I would say I'm 90 percent collaborative in everything I do, and 10 percent of the time I just make the call.

Jerry Berman

We have tools out there which are 100 percent available.

Ronnie Arnold

We're within 2 percent of the 65 percent now.

David Baltimore

Were we to go with 60 percent at NIH reviews, many of us scientists would be very uncomfortable with the quality.

Joel Fox

We re-use 85 to 90 percent of it.

Dick Vermeil

We just want to make sure he's 100 percent ready in his own mind, as well as physically.

Bob Kelly

You can get 170 percent more Terminal Services users on a single server with Windows 2003 Server x64 than you can with 32-bit Windows.

Andrew Cuomo

You just want to win by one. To win by over 50 percent is especially gratifying.

Beth Young

I'm still waiting on that one. We shoot about 30 percent and that would take about 300 shots. I think we try to take that many shots sometimes.

Von Joshua

He's a lot better than he thinks he is.

Jim MacDonald

Whatever (Town Administrator William Keegan) thinks is right,

John Breaux

He'll tell it like it is. If he thinks something is not right, he'll holler about it. I'd be hollering at everybody, too.

Michael Barrett

Whenever we lose, he thinks he's going to have cardiac arrest.

Erica Cerra

I've always been a person who thinks it's really important to better themselves.

Walter Lippmann

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much

Shane Warne

I think everyone out there thinks that there's been hundreds and hundreds and thousands of women. That is not actually the case.

Sara Cox

I've got a down-turned mouth, so unless I'm smiling, everyone thinks I'm miserable.

Pope Francis

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

Van Cleve

We had only three weeks to make a totally life-changing decision,

Mark Erickson

We were still with them through three (quarters), though.

Peter Smith

Most of them did sell. I think only two or three are left.

Jim Tressel

Where we are at this moment, ... is not where you'd like to be after three games.

Adam LaRoche

I think I was 0-for-4 with three strikeouts,

James Toney

I thought I won it by two or three points. I thought we had the edge.

B. B. King

Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here

Brian Kerr

We got the three points. That's all you can say. ... We have to do much better on Wednesday.

William Shakespeare

Shall I never see a bachelor of three score again?

Colleen Schreier

I was throbbing. (My hand) was totally swollen.

Tubby Smith

We're not the same team. We're totally different. Whatever it is, we've got to keep it up.

Nikolai Khabibulin

I was pretty bad. I totally understand the decision.

Sofia Vergara

For me, this is a totally new thing,

Doug Wilson

He's a freak, ... totally off the charts.

Steve Bennett

I would say our two weeks down there were totally different than their two weeks.

David Bryan

He is partially right and partially wrong, but mainly, he is totally wrong.

Nick Hardwick

He is just crisp out there. He is totally in control.

Ronnie Spector

From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration.